Rachel
Mushet is a Senior Planner specialising in Planning and Development

Rachel is a Chartered Town Planner who specialises in providing strategic planning advice on major commercial development projects.

Rachel has a wide range of experience working across sectors in both England and Scotland. Although her key focus is assisting clients with delivering developments in the industrial and logistics sector, and advising on data centre projects, Rachel also works on mixed-use town centre regeneration development and in the higher education sector.

Rachel is involved in all stages of the planning process, from preparing initial site appraisals and undertaking due diligence, through to pre-application engagement with Local Planning Authorities and managing the submission of applications. Rachel facilities collaborative working relationships between clients, consultant teams and Local Planning Authorities to ensure that client requirements are fully considered and agreed strategies are developed to meet key project milestones.

Rachel assists clients in both the public and private sectors and currently advises a number of institutional and developer clients.

Key skills

• Applications for full, hybrid and outline planning permission, reserved matters, listed building consent, advertisement consent, Prior Approval, and Certificates of Lawfulness
• Providing advice on the discharge of conditions/ obligations and assisting with negotiating legal agreements/ CIL matters
• Pre-application consultation, including dialogue with Local Planning Authorities and engagement with key stakeholders/ members of the public
• Advising on emerging planning policy at a local, regional and national level
• Working as part of multidisciplinary teams, including feeding into masterplans and Environmental Impact Assessments

Clients

• Associated British Ports
• Siemens Mobility
• CyrusOne
• The University of Sheffield
• CBRE Investment Management
• Abrdn